Planting Your Own Garden Quotes

1. "Form a clear mental vision of your ideal life before you start taking action to achieve it."
Author: Amey Hegde

2. "I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops with my build. I got to sling beer and sing when I just want to sing. I drink because I got responsibilities that I can't handle...I am not a happy man. I got a wife and children and I don't happen to be a hard-working man. I never wanted a family...Yes, your mother works hard. I love my wife and I love my children. But shouldn't a man have a better life? Maybe someday it will be that the Unions will arrange for a man to work and to have time for himself too. But that won't be in my time. Now, it's work hard all the time or be a bum... no in-between. When I die, nobody will remember me for long. No one will say, "He was a man who loved his family and believed in the Union." All they will say is," Too bad. But he was nothing but a drunk no matter which way you look at it." Yes they'll say that."
Author: Betty Smith

3. "Should they be thanked or does thanks drive them away?"You honor us," she stammered. "We request your help."
Author: Cecilia Dart Thornton

4. "You want to get your book to press. You rush it through. Revision number twenty—done. Do you really need twenty more? Yes. A half-baked book is a half-birthed child. It aborts, is put on life support; reviewers line the hall to pull the plug."
Author: Chila Woychik

5. "I can't afford to take responsibilities for others' lives. It's all I can do to bear the weight of my own life and my own loneliness."
Author: Haruki Murakami

6. "The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."
Author: Jessica Lange

7. "Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better."
Author: Jim Butcher

8. "We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 years we have clear-cut the forests, fished rivers and oceans to the brink of extinction and siphoned oil from the earth as if it possessed an infinite supply. We've sold off our planet's natural capital and called it income. And now the earth, like the economy, is stripped."
Author: Kalle Lasn

9. "Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand."
Author: Karl Marx

10. "For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership."
Author: Kathryn Minshew

11. "If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice."
Author: Kelly Corrigan

12. "Witches married outside their species all the time, especially before the Turn. There were perfectly acceptable options: adoption, artificial insemination, borrowing your best friend's boyfriend for a night. Issues of what was morally right and wrong tended not to matter when you found yourself in love with a man you couldn't tell you weren't human. It sort of went with the whole hiding-among-humans-for-the-last-five-thousand-years thing."
Author: Kim Harrison

13. "Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. And the way you are with me and you're just fun and you shit all over me and you make fun of me and you're real. I don't have enough time in any day to think about you enough...I don't even think about women anymore. I think about you."
Author: Louis C.K.

14. "Trust God with your love life, and buckle up for the ride!"
Author: Paula Hendricks

15. "I meant the house behind him clutching his chest, Parker gasped. Gage! you pervert! That's Mrs. Falconi-she's ninety-six years old! Clearing her throat,Miss Dupree struggled to keep her own amusement in check. Thank you Roo,for that fascinating bit of information. And should any of us a pervert lurking outside our windows tonight, We can all rest easily now,Knowing it's only Gage."
Author: Richie Tankersley Cusick

16. "I need no alibi,I did steal your heart."
Author: Sapphire Belucci

17. "Who scorns his own life is lord of yours."
Author: Seneca

18. "Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale."
Author: Steve Hockensmith

19. "When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee."
Author: Steven Curtis Chapman

20. "It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be."
Author: Terence Blacker

21. "Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees, ... one's happiness, one's reality?"
Author: Virginia Woolf

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